Irish Traditional Music Tune Index
Album Details for First through the Gate by Brian Conway

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Artist NameBrian Conway
Album TitleFirst through the Gate
MusiciansBrian Conway (fiddle), with Andy McGann (fiddle), Pat Mangan (fiddle), Mark Simos (guitar), John Doyle (guitar), Felix Dolan (piano), Pat Kilbride (cittern), Myron Bretholz (bodhrán, bones).
Source and
other information		Smithsonian Folkways Recordings SFW CD 40481, 2002. Recorded 1997-2002 in New York, but dates are not given for each track. Liner notes by Mick Moloney, Earle Hitchner, and Don Meade.

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Every Irish tune on this album was identified by carefully comparing this recorded performance with all other tunes in the Irish Traditional Music Tune Index—by comparing musically, disregarding tune titles. The track and tune numbers below, furthermore, correspond to what you actually hear on this album. This page is thus more reliable than the original album notes, track titles listed by iTunes/Media Player, or other Web sites, all of which usually suffer from errors.

TrackTuneTune ID#RhythmTitles used for this tune (and other notes)
11 Tune Info
3069		 Reel Liffey Banks, The / Liffy Banks / Bruacha na Life / The Colleen Bawn (1st in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (also 2nd part doubled)
2 Tune Info
372		 Reel Concert Reel, The / Concert Reel / Ríl na Ceolchoirme / The Concert (also in B)
3 Tune Info
529		 Reel Donegal Traveler, The / Donegall Traveller (also in A or C)
21 Tune Info
668		 JigSl Foxhunter's Jig, The / The Fox Hunter's Jig / The Foxhunters' Jig / Foxhunters' Jig / The Foxhunters' / The Fox Hunter / The Jolly Foxhunters (also as close of An Madradhín Ruadh / The Fox Chase #664; in set Chasing the Fox on Ch BIH) (also in G; a widespread alternate setting is in G without 1st part or 4th part, as on MC and in some later sources; also as double jig on Ch 2) (compare Humors of Derrycrosane #855)
2 Tune Info
1931		 JigSl Tommy Hunt's Jig / Tommy Hunts / Humours of Ballisodare / The Colleen Bawn
3 Tune Info
363		 JigSl Comb Your Hair and Curl It / Coleman's No. 2 / Coleman's No. 2 Slip Jig / Coleman's Hop (also in A)
31 Tune Info
1365		 Reel Mullingar Lea, The / The Mullingar Lee / Bán an Mhuillinn Ghearr / The Nine-Pint Coggie / The Pint of Ale (also 2nd or both parts doubled) (composed by Paddy Kelly)
2 Tune Info
537		 Reel Dowd's No. 9 / Dowd's #9 / Dowd's Number Nine / O'Dowd's No. 9 / A Naoi Ó Dubhda / An Samhradh in Éirinn / Summer in Ireland / Jackson's #9 / Hugh Gillespie's (mislabeled as The Old High Reel on JWh; as postlude in set The Best Years of My Life on TDeM) (also 1st or both parts singled)
3 Tune Info
1103		 Reel Lass of Carracastle, The / The Carracastle Lass / Miss Langford / Miss Langford's Reel / Iníon Langfort / James Morrison's / John Eddie's (3rd in set Dinny O'Brien's Reels on KCB 3) (also in C or G) (composed by Paddy Sweeney?)
41 Tune Info
3922		 JigD Up Sligo / Up Sligo No. 2 / The Geese in the Bog (compare 2nd part with 2nd part of Geese in the Bog #708)
2 Tune Info
384		 JigD Contentment Is Wealth / The Golden Keyboard (also in A Mixolydian, also in A Dorian with 3 parts)
3 Tune Info
1733		 JigD Scotsman over the Border, The / Scotsman over the Border / The Scotchman over the Border / Blue Bonnets over the Border / Mist in the Glen / Mist on the Meadow (for 3rd figure of Taille Mhara Jig Set on MISD 7) (compare Carraroe Jig #282 and Blue Bonnets Jig #182)
51 Tune Info
161		 Reel Blackberry Blossom, The / Blackberry Blossom / Bláth na Sméire Duibhe / Blackberry Blossoms / The Strawberry Beds / The Strawberry Blossom (also in A or D or doubled)
2 Tune Info
1771		 Reel Silver Spire, The / Silver Spire / An Spiora Airgid / John Brennan's / John Brennans / Great Eastern Reel / The Great Eastern Reel / Pat Sweeney's Medley / La Grandeuse / La Grondeuse (3rd in set Captain O Kane on NNC) (compare Great Eastern #2965)
3 Tune Info
474		 Reel Dawn, The / Bánú an Lae / Miller's Reel / Miller's / Fáinne an Lae / The Dawning of the Day (also in G or D) (compare 1st part with 1st part of Twilight in Portroe #2851)
61 Tune Info
427		 Hpipe Cuckoo, The / The Cuckoo Hornpipe / Cuckoo Hornpipe / The Cuckoo's Hornpipe / The Dublin Hornpipe / Murray's Fancy / Michael Coleman's
2 Tune Info
650		 Hpipe Flowers of Spring, The / Flowers of Spring
3 Tune Info
561		 Hpipe Dunphy's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Dhonnchaidh / Miss Dunphy's Hornpipe / Dunphy's / Dumphy's / Dumphy's Hornpipe / Cornphíopa Uí Mhurcú
71 Tune Info
445		 Reel Dairy Maid, The / The Dairymaid / Bean an Bhainne / The Dairy Maid's Reel / Shuffle the Cards (4th in set The Ritz on KCB 6) (also doubled)
2 Tune Info
1662		 Reel Reel of Bogie, The / Real o' Bogee / The Reel of Body / The Long Chase / The Tramps / The Tramp's / The Stile of Ballylanders / Style of Ballylanders / Maun's Fancy / The Cuffstreet Lasses (compare 1st part with 1st part of Burnt Cabbage #3679; compare 2nd part with 1st part of Boogie Reel #2862)
3 Tune Info
509		 Reel Langton's Favorite / Laington's Reel / Langston's Favorite / Dillon Brown / Dillon Brown's Fancy (also 2nd part singled)
81 Tune Info
4130		 Fling O'Flynn's Fancy / Rogha Uí Fhloinn (mistakenly titled Dicky Sherlock’s Reel in index of book CRE 2)
2 Tune Info
3935		 Fling Boston O'Connor / Casey's Pig / The Duke of Gordon's Birthday (composed by William Marshall)
3 Tune Info
951		 Strath Jimmy Lyon's (2nd in set Jimi Lyons on LLPQ 1) (also in B; also described as a highland)
91 Tune Info
1523		 Reel Paddy Ryan's Dream / The Tullagh Reel / Miss Lyall / Mooney's Favourite (Tullagh Reel could be distinct tune?)
2 Tune Info
1402		 Reel Never Was Piping So Gay (composed by Ed Reavy)
3 Tune Info
75		 Reel John McGrath's / Andy McGann's (composed by John McGrath)
101 Tune Info
929		 Reel Jenny's Welcome to Charlie / Jenny's Welcome to Charley / Fáilte Shinéad roimh Chathal / Jenny and the Weaver / Jennie and the Weaver / Jennie and the Weazel / The Highway to Holburn (also singled, also parts in varying orders, also without 3rd part) (compare The Long Note #3080 and Jenny Picking Cockles #924)
2 Tune Info
797		 Reel Hand Me Down the Tackle / Sín Chugam Anuas an Tácla / Hand Down the Tackle / The Pure Drop / Tom Steele / Tomás Stíl / Thomas Steele / The Hielander's Kneebuckle / The Hielanman's Kneebuckle / Búcla Glúine an Híleantóra / Reidy Johnson's / Reidy Johnston's / Drogheda Lasses (4th in set Humours of Galway on FG 3) (compare settings included here of The Drogheda Lasses, and The Pure Drop; compare very distantly Callan Lasses #4741)
111 Tune Info
812		 Air Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / A' Raibh Tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig / An Raibh tú ag an gCarraig? / An Raibh tú ar an gCarraig? / An Rabhais ag an g Carraig / Have You Been at Carrick? / Were you at Carrick? / Have You Been at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock? / Were You at the Rock (also as song, included here)
121 Tune Info
1224		 Reel Martin Wynne's / Martin Wynne's No. 1 / Martin Wynne's No 1 / The Burying Poteen / Martin Wynne's No. 2 / Martin Wynne's No 2 (1st in set Martin Wynne's on ApW)
2 Tune Info
2107		 Reel Martin Wynne's / Martin Wynne's No. 2 / Martin Wynne's No. 1 / Martin Wynne's No 1 / Martin Wynn's #1 (2nd in set Martin Wynne's on ApW) (composed by Martin Wynne)
3 Tune Info
3066		 Reel Martin Wynne's No. 3 / Martin Wynne's #3 / Martin Wynnes #3 / Wynne's No. 3 / Martin Wynns No.3 / Martin Wynne's / Willie Coleman's / Up and Away (1st in set Midsummer's Night on Drv 5) (composed by Martin Wynne)
4 Tune Info
4132		 Reel Martin Wynne's No. 4 (composed by Martin Wynne)
131 Tune Info
1296		 Hpipe Minnie Foster's Clog / Minnie Foster / Minny Foster / The Black Swan (also in E)
2 Tune Info
1414		 Hpipe Newcastle, The / The Newcastle Hornpipe / McCormack's / McCormack's Hornpipe / McCormacks / Prince Albert's (3rd in set Alone in the Dark on WFO 3)
3 Tune Info
2224		 Hpipe Arthur's Seat / Fly by Night No. 2 / The Fly in the Night (also in Bb)
141 Tune Info
930		 JigD Jerry's Beaver Hat / Jerry Beaver's Hat / Béabhar Ghearóid / The Returned Yank / Cooley's Jig / When Sick, Is it Tea You Want? (compare Tommy Peoples' #1943)
2 Tune Info
1728		 JigD Scatter the Mud / Scaip an Puiteach / Rambles with Rory / The Noonday Feast / Port Jack Walsh / Jack Walsh's Jig / Smash the Windows / Connaughtman's Rambles / Freehan's Jig / Maid of Tramore (also in E) (compare 1st part with 1st part of The Maid of Tramore #1028)
3 Tune Info
1765		 JigD Ship in Full Sail, The / An Long faoi Lán Seoil / Ships in Full Sail / The Ship on the Ocean / Out on the Ocean / Kitty's Wedding / Paddy the Dandy / An Buachaillín Buidhe / Buachaillín Buidhe / The Bouchaleen Buidhe / Pride of Leinster / McArdle's Favorite / McArdle's Favourite (3rd in set Johnny Leary's on NCrg 1; 2nd in set Oil for the Chain on MSHtn 1) (also in G, also without 3rd part or with different 3rd part) (compare 1st part with 1st part of #3876)
151 Tune Info
1807		 Reel Spike Island Lassies, The / The Spike Island Lasses / Gearrchaile Oileán Píce / Gearrchaillí Oileán Píce / Cloichíní Beaga na Farraige / The Small Stones of the Sea (1st in set The Hillsbrook Reels on MMcG 3) (also without 3rd and 4th parts, also in A) (compare Bank of Ireland #114 and Reidy's Reel)
2 Tune Info
2719		 Reel Ballynacally Reel, The / Ríl Bhaile na Caillí / Tom Moylan's Frolics / [mislabeled on SK 1 as:] The Dublin Reel (also singled with reversed parts)
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